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Format: Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 336
Utgivningsdatum: 2011-08-09
Förlag: Yale University Press
Illustrationer: 16 pp. of black-&-white illustrations
Dimensioner: 247 x 177 x 44 mm
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ISBN: 9780300118100

Mary I

Name: Mary I
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Author: John Edwards
ISBN: 9780300118100

England's Catholic Queen

av John Edwards

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011-08-09

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The life story of Mary I - daughter of Henry VIII and his Spanish wife, Catherine of Aragon - is often distilled to a few dramatic episodes: her victory over the attempted coup by Lady Jane Grey, the imprisonment of her half-sister Elizabeth, the burning of Protestants, her short marriage to Philip of Spain. This original and deeply researched biography paints a far more detailed portrait of Mary and offers a fresh understanding of her religious faith and policies as well as her historical significance in England and beyond. John Edwards, a leading scholar of English and Spanish history, is the first to make full use of Continental archives in this context, especially Spanish ones, to demonstrate how Mary's culture, Catholic faith, and politics were thoroughly Spanish. Edwards begins with Mary's origins, follows her as she battles her increasingly erratic father, and focuses particular attention on her notorious religious policies, some of which went horribly wrong from her point of view. The book concludes with a consideration of Mary's five-year reign and the frustrations that plagued her final years.Childless, ill, deserted by her husband, Mary died in the full knowledge that her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth would undo her religious work and, without acknowledging her sister, would reap the benefits of Mary's achievements in government.

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Sociolinguistics: A Very Short Introduction

John Edwards

This Very Short Introduction deals with the social life of language, presenting a succinct account of the most important aspects - both "micro" and "macro" - of sociolinguistics, such as language variation, language attitudes, and the relationship...

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"[T]he most comprehensive and convincing account to date."--J.H./i>--J.H. Elliott "The New York Review of Books "

John Edwards is Modern Languages Faculty Research Fellow in Spanish, University of Oxford. His recent books include The Spanish Inquisition, Ferdinand and Isabella, and Isabella: Catholic Queen and Madam of Spain.